The
bodies of two jetskiers who had gone missing off the coast of Seagate
on July Fourth evening were recovered the next day by police divers as
distraught relatives looked on.

Police
and witnesses said Willie Tom, 44, and Celine Fu, 29 were riding on the
same Jet Ski when Fu fell off and disappeared under the water near
Kaiser Park.

Tom,
who was driving the craft, jumped in to try to save her – he was
apparently dragged under by the struggling Fu. Neither was wearing a
life vest.

"He
was a great man, an adventurous guy. He loved helping people," Tom's
brother, Michael, 38, said as he and their mother watched from the Coney
Island shore while police divers recovered the bodies. "There
was no way he was going to come up without her. She was struggling, and
if she wasn't coming up, he wasn't without her," Michael Tom said.